Faster than a speeding bullet

The big news today is that James Horner is off DePalma’s The Black Dahlia, and Mark Isham is on. Within 24 hours, this item of information will be reproduced and linked to on every film score website and forum known to man. It remains unclear if the new FSM Online for February will be available by then, however…

I’m not sure if FSM Online is going to survive into the Internet age, although I will keep supporting it for now; magazines - or more specifically, magazine publishing models - do not translate well into the portal-dominated Internet “publishing market.” It’s all about generating daily, or at the very least weekly, content. Websurfers are insatiable. And interestingly it seems like the news all comes from the same press releases these days. What a difference from ten years ago when access to information about what was going on in the film scoring world, was very hard to come by.

On the other hand, some things about film score news haven’t changed — the segregation between Hollywood-based news sources and ones that have a toe in the European scoring world, unfortunately, continues. Again it’s still all about who’s in what very small circle.

Update: Some rather welcome news from Film Music Radio, in the form of their announcement that Mikael Carlsson will now exclusively provide news for them, in addition to hosting his own weekly program, “The Red Carpet.”  Even better, the news will be sent every 2 weeks by e-mail, which I have eagerly signed up for.